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Functionalist Theory
Perhaps the oldest and most dominant theoretical perspective in sociology, functionalist theory, or structural functionalism, focuses on the central idea that society is a whole unit, composed of interconnected parts. These parts both influence the whole of society ...
- Administration, theories of
- American Association of School Administrators
- Democracy, democratic education and administration
- National Council of Professors of Educational Administration
- Recruitment, of school administrators
- Risk takers, in educational administration
- Stress, in school administration
- Theory movement, in educational administration
- University Council for Educational Administration
- Adams, Charles Francis
- Addams, Jane
- Aristotle
- Baer, Donald
- Barnard, Chester I.
- Bell, Ted
- Bethune, Mary McLeod
- Binet, Alfred
- Bobbitt, John Franklin
- Bryant, William Cullen
- Burns, James MacGregor
- Burroughs, Nannie
- Burt, Cyril
- Butler, Nicholas Murray
- Carlyle, Thomas
- Cattell, Raymond
- Chavez, Cesar Estrada
- Clark, Septima
- Cocking, Walter
- Coleman, James
- Cooper, Anna Julia
- Coppin, Fanny Jackson
- Covey, Stephen
- Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
- Cubberley, Ellwood
- Culbertson, Jack
- Darwin, Charles
- de Bono, Edward
- Deming, W. Edwards
- Dewey, John
- Dorsey, Susan Miller
- Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Dyson, Michael Eric
- Follett, Mary Parker
- Freud, Sigmund
- Friedman, Milton
- Fullan, Michael
- Gardner, Howard
- Graves, Claire
- Greenfield, Thomas Barr
- Haley, Margaret
- Hall, R. Vance
- Halpin, Andrew
- Harris, William Torrey
- Havighurst, Robert
- Hay, Henry (Harry)
- Howe, Harold
- Jefferson, Thomas
- Jung, Carl
- King, Martin Luther Jr.
- Kuhn, Thomas
- Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara
- Lindsley, Ogden R.
- Loyola, Ignatius
- Machiavelli, Niccolò
- Malcolm X
- Mann, Horace
- Marshall, Thurgood
- Marx, Karl
- Maslow, Abraham
- Maxwell, William H.
- McGregor, Douglas
- Meier, Deborah
- Mendez, Felicitas
- Montessori, Maria
- Ossorio, Peter G.
- Parker, Francis W.
- Patri, Angelo
- Peirce, Cyrus
- Piaget, Jean
- Picott, J. Rupert
- Plato
- Plutarch
- Popper, Karl
- Rice, Joseph Mayer
- Risley, Todd R.
- Rogers, Carl
- Russell, Bertrand
- Sanchez, George
- Simon, Herbert
- Sizemore, Barbara A.
- Skinner, B. F.
- Spearman, Charles
- Spencer, Herbert
- Strayer, George D.
- Taylor, Frederick
- Thorndike, Edward
- Trenholm, Harper Councill
- Tyler, Ralph Winifred
- Washington, Booker T.
- Weber, Max
- Wolf, Montrose
- Woodson, Carter G.
- Young, Ella Flagg
- Aesthetics, in education
- Alignment, of curriculum
- Arts education
- Bible, as history
- Business education
- Career and technical education
- Character education
- Civics, civic education
- Civics, history in schools
- Community education
- Compensatory education
- Contextual teaching and learning
- Creationism
- Cross-cultural education
- Cross-cultural studies
- Curriculum, theories of
- Curriculum audit
- Curriculum guides
- Curriculum mapping
- Death education
- Differentiated instruction
- Differentiated staffing
- Drug education
- Early childhood education
- Elementary education
- Federal Privacy Act
- Fundamentalism
- Giftedness, gifted education
- Globalism
- History, in curriculum
- Holocaust education
- Humanistic education
- Indian education
- Innovation, in education
- International education
- Internships
- Lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender issues in education
- Mainstreaming and inclusion
- Mastery learning
- Math education
- Moral education
- Multiculturalism
- Museum education
- Peace education
- Physical education
- Problem-based learning
- Reading, history of, use in schools
- Religion, in schools
- Right-wing politics, advocates, impact on education
- Risk takers, in educational administration
- Science, in curriculum
- Special education
- Writing, teaching of
- Budgeting
- Business education
- Capacity building, of organizations
- Capital outlay
- Class, social
- Collective bargaining
- Compensatory education
- Contracts, with teacher unions
- Control of education, state
- Cost-benefit analyses
- Decentralization/centralization controversy
- Digital divide
- Division of labor
- Dropouts
- Drug education
- Economics, theories of
- Educational equity
- Elastic tax
- Elections, of school boards, bond issues
- Equality, in schools
- Equity and adequacy of funding schools
- Finance, of public schools
- Infrastructure, of organizations
- Job security
- Licensure and certification
- Lottery systems
- Market theory of schooling
- Merit pay
- Needs assessment
- Office of Economic Opportunity
- Performance assessment
- Performance evaluation systems
- Personnel management
- Planning, Programming, Budgeting System
- Planning models
- Privatization
- Property tax
- Recruitment, of school administrators
- Reduction in force
- Resource management
- Restructuring, of schools
- Salary and salary models
- Sales tax
- School-business partnerships
- Seniority, rule of
- Stewardship
- Taxes, to support education
- Unions, of teachers
- Voucher plans
- Work task measurement
- Working conditions, in schools
- Workplace trends
- World Bank, influence on education
- Academic freedom
- Affirmative action
- Charter schools
- Chicago school reform
- Civics, civic education
- Civics, history in schools
- Civil rights movement
- Compensatory education
- Compulsory education
- Consolidation, of school districts
- Control, managerial
- Control of education, state
- Corporal punishment
- Cultural politics, wars
- Democracy, democratic education and administration
- Department of Education
- Desegregation, of schools
- Discipline in schools
- Discrimination
- Educational equity
- Elections, of school boards, bond issues
- Empowerment
- Equality, in schools
- Expulsion, of students
- Federal Privacy Act
- Finance, of public schools
- Flexner report
- Gallup Polls, on public education
- Giftedness, gifted education
- Head Start
- Immigration, history and impact in education
- Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium
- Just cause
- Kalamazoo case
- Kentucky Education Reform Act
- Law
- Law, trends in
- Licensure and certification
- Mainstreaming and inclusion
- Math education
- Minorities, in schools
- A Nation at Risk
- National Assessment of Educational Progress
- No Child Left Behind
- Office of Economic Opportunity
- Open-door policy
- Policy advocacy
- Policy Making, values of
- Politics, of education
- Privatization
- Problem-based learning
- Promotion, social
- Restructuring, of schools
- Right-wing politics, advocates, impact on education
- Rural education
- School districts, history and development
- Social relations, dimensions of
- State departments of education
- Supreme Court, United States, key cases in education law
- Taxes, to support education
- Technology and the law
- Terrorism
- Textbooks
- Unions, of teachers
- Voucher plans
- Year-round education
- Charisma, of leaders
- Conceptual systems theory and leadership
- Faculty, educational leadership programs
- Feminism and theories of leadership
- Ideology, shifts of in educational leadership preparation
- Leadership, complex theory of
- Leadership, discretionary (and power)
- Leadership, distributed
- Leadership, national standards
- Leadership, participatory
- Leadership, situational
- Leadership, social dimensions of
- Leadership, spiritual
- Leadership, system-oriented
- Leadership, task-oriented
- Leadership, teacher
- Leadership, theories of
- Leadership effectiveness
- Leadership styles
- Logic, history and use of in educational leadership
- Morality, moral leadership
- Path-goal leadership theory
- Transformational leadership
- Universities, preparation of educational leaders in
- Values of organizations and leadership
- Women in educational leadership
- Accountability
- Adaptiveness of organizations
- American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
- American Association of School Administrators
- American Federation of Teachers
- Boards of education
- Bureaucracy
- Capacity building, of organizations
- Chain of command
- Communications, theories in organizations
- Council of Chief State School Officers
- Council of Great City Schools
- Department of Education
- Education Commission of the States
- Educational Testing Service
- Ethos, of organizations
- Group dynamics
- Head Start
- Holmes Group
- Infrastructure, of organizations
- Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium
- Involvement, in organizations
- League of United Latin American Citizens
- Matrix organization (the “adhocracy”)
- Mensa
- National Assessment of Educational Progress
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- National Association of Elementary School Principals
- National Association of Secondary School Principals
- National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education
- National Council of Professors of Educational Administration
- National Education Association
- Office of Economic Opportunity
- Organizational design
- Organizational memory
- Organizational theories
- Organizations, types of, typologies
- Parent Teacher Association
- Partnerships, interagency
- Satisfaction, in organizations and roles
- School districts, history and development
- School plant management
- School safety
- School-business partnerships
- Schools of education
- Staffing, concepts of
- State departments of education
- Stratification, in organizations
- Table of organization
- Unions, of teachers
- University Council for Educational Administration
- Values of organizations and leadership
- Adolescence
- Adult education
- Affective domain
- Affective education
- At-risk students
- Behavior, student
- Behaviorism
- Belonging
- Brain research and practice
- Bullying
- Career stages
- Character education
- Child development theories
- Classroom management
- Cognition, theories of
- Cognitive dissonance
- Cognitive styles
- Cohorts
- Competition, forms of, in schools
- Compliance theory
- Conditioning theory
- Determinism, sociocultural
- Disabilities, of students
- Discipline in schools
- Early childhood education
- Egocentrism, theories of
- Emotional disturbance
- Esteem needs
- Expectations, teacher and student cultures
- Feedback
- Gender studies
- Gestalt theory and therapy
- Giftedness, gifted education
- Group dynamics
- Halo effect
- Individual differences, in children
- Language theories and processes
- Learning, theories of
- Learning environments
- Life span development
- Mental illness, in adults and children
- Motivation, theories of
- Peer interaction/friendships
- Personality
- Pygmalion effect
- Resiliency
- Role model
- Satisfaction, in organizations and roles
- Self-actualization
- Suicide, in schools
- Trait theory
- Violence in schools
- Accountability
- Architecture of schools
- Athletics in schools
- Charter schools
- Chicago school reform
- Choice, of schools
- Civics, history in schools
- Class size
- Climate, school
- Comer School Development Program
- Competition, forms of, in schools
- Consolidation, of school districts
- Council of Chief State School Officers
- Council of Great City Schools
- Culture, school
- Curriculum, theories of
- Desegregation, of schools
- Discipline in schools
- Elections, of school boards, bond issues
- Equality, in schools
- Equity and adequacy of funding schools
- Esprit (school climate)
- Fascism and schools
- Finance, of public schools
- Hazards, environmental, in schools
- High schools
- Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium
- Junior high schools
- Loss of position (school principal)
- Market theory of schooling
- Middle schools
- Minorities, in schools
- A Nation at Risk
- National Association of Elementary School Principals
- National Association of Secondary School Principals
- No Child Left Behind
- Normal schools
- Prayer in school
- Professional development schools
- Reading, history of, use in schools
- Recruitment, of school administrators
- Reform, of schools
- Religion, in schools
- Restructuring, of schools
- Scheduling, types of in schools
- School districts, history and development
- School improvement models
- School plant management
- School safety
- School size
- School-business partnerships
- Schooling effects
- Schools of education
- Stress, in school administration
- Suicide, in schools
- Underachievers, in schools
- Values pluralism, in schools
- Vandalism in schools
- Violence in schools
- Voucher plans
- Working conditions, in schools
- Accreditation
- American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
- American Association of School Administrators
- American Federation of Teachers
- Contextual teaching and learning
- Contracts, with teacher unions
- Curriculum, theories of
- Curriculum audit
- Curriculum guides
- Curriculum mapping
- Expectations, teacher and student cultures
- Faculty, educational leadership programs
- Leadership, teacher
- Licensure and certification
- National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education
- National Council of Professors of Educational Administration
- Parent Teacher Association
- Parental involvement
- Student teaching
- Teacher recruitment and retention
- Team teaching
- Unions, of teachers
- Web-based teaching and learning
- Writing, teaching of
- Achievement gap, of students
- Achievement tests
- Educational Testing Service
- Effect size
- Evaluation
- Individual differences, in children
- Item response theory
- Measurement, theories of
- No Child Left Behind
- Performance assessment
- Psychometrics
- Scholastic Aptitude Test
- Standardized testing
- Testing and test theory development
- Underachievers, in schools
- Validity and reliability
- Administration, theories of
- Afrocentric theories
- Axiomatic theory
- Chaos theory
- Child development theories
- Cognition, theories of
- Cognitive dissonance
- Collaboration theory
- Communications, theories in organizations
- Compliance theory
- Conceptual systems theory and leadership
- Conditioning theory
- Constructivism
- Constructivism, social
- Contingency theories
- Creationism
- Creativity, theories of
- Critical race theory
- Critical theory
- Curriculum, theories of
- Determinism, sociocultural
- Disequilibrium, theories of
- Economics, theories of
- Efficacy theory
- Egocentrism, theories of
- Existentialism
- Fascism and schools
- Feminism and theories of leadership
- Field theory
- Flow theory
- Frame theory
- Functionalist theory
- Gestalt theory and therapy
- Great man theory
- Hierarchical developmental models
- Idealism, as philosophy in education
- Item response theory
- J-curve theory
- Language theories and processes
- Leadership, complex theory of
- Leadership, theories of
- Learning, theories of
- Liberalism
- Literacy, theories of
- Management theories
- Market theory of schooling
- Measurement, theories of
- Moral education
- Motivation, theories of
- Networking and network theory
- Open systems theory
- Organizational theories
- Path-goal leadership theory
- Perceptual control theory
- Philosophies of education
- Planning models
- Positivism, postpositivism
- Postmodernism
- Pragmatism and progressivism
- Principal-agent theory
- Psychology, types of
- Qualitative research, history, theories, issues
- Queer theory
- Rational organizational theory
- Recognition theory/identity politics
- Role theory
- S-curve theory
- Satisficing theory
- Sexuality, theories of
- Subjectivism, in theory
- Systems theory/thinking
- Testing and test theory development
- Theories, use of
- Theory movement, in educational administration
- Theory X, Theory Y
- Three-factor-model, five-factor-model
- Trait theory
- Vulnerability thesis, of superintendents
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